[Python-Dev] Hi, and a question about filename completion via readline in Python 2.3 (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Sep 25 13:50:10 EDT 2003

Fernando Perez <fperez at colorado.edu> writes:

Michael Hudson wrote:

Fernando Perez <fperez at colorado.edu> writes:

work. I personally (and many others) use ipython as my main python shell, and I fell it provides a superior working environment to anything else I've seen out there (especially if you need to combine python work with manipulating underlying files). Bet pyrepl still canes it for multi-line work :-) It does for on-site multi-line work (though ipython now has an @edit command which is a reasonable substitute). But ipython has a ton more features that make it a fuller environment. As I said before (long ago), it would be cool if we could integrate the two a bit more. Care to give it a go (off-list)?

not right now. Too much else to do. But one day, I promise!

So ultimately my concerns are:

- is there currently a way to re-enable readline filename completion, as suggested in that thread? Yes. Do it yourself, in your completer function. Is it really that hard? I would have thought os.path + glob would make it a five line or so excercise. Oh well, I'll do it myself then. I'm a bit bummed to see functionality disappear in a release, but I can live with it.

The problem before was that there was no way of preventing the files from appearing in the completion list. I don't think their appearence there was ever intended. I just don't know enough about readline to know if implementing a 

readline.set_filenames_in_completion()

function is feasible. But that won't appease your users who have 2.3, of course.

I have more and more 2.3 users who aren't too happy about this change, so I'll just go ahead and implement it.

Didn't any of them try the betas? This change is plenty old.

Cheers, mwh

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